It’s been three long years since Mastodon’s last “metal for people who don’t love metal, but also metalheads” album. That’s about to change, though. The band’s sixth record, Once More Round the Sun, is due out sometime in June, and they’ve got the single to prove it. “High Road” is pretty much what you’d expect from a Mastodon song: hard riffs, balls out chorus, and oh yeah, very good.

Good tune, but I kept waiting for it to do…something…that never came. Given the different interviews about how the new release would have more of a throwback Mastodon sound, I guess I was expecting a track more closely resembling the weight of a ‘March of the Fire Ants’ or ‘Island.’ Oh well. Still a very good start to a highly anticipated album.